Abolition of state medical aid, a leitmotif of the right and a bone of contention

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2024-09-24 18:16:01

The new minister of the interior, Bruno Retailleau, at the ministry, in Paris, during the transfer of power, September 23, 2024.

There are symbols. In terms of immigration, state medical assistance (AME) is one. This device divides the political space and can quickly reveal divisions within the new government.

Just appointed Minister of the Interior, executive heavyweight and conservative figure of the Republican (LR), Bruno Retailleau said on TF1, Monday September 23, that he wants to address this basket of care for undocumented immigrants gifts less than 10,000 euros per year , and which benefits, at the end of 2023, around 450,000 people. “I don’t want to (…) that France is the most attractive country in Europe for a number of social benefits and access to care”he announced. The new tenant of Place Beauvau can have a special advantage on this topic from the goodwill of the Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, who defended it in 2021, during his campaign for the first LR, eliminating the AME.

“Public Health System”

Members of the government, however, can attack. The Minister of Education Change, Energy, Climate and Risk Prevention, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, rather resistant to the right wing of Macronism, responded the other day on France-Bleu Nord: “We have made it clear. Dismissal will not be accepted due to state medical assistance, beyond [du fait qu’elle vient] help foreigners in the area, is a public health system”he objected, repeating the discussions that passed macronie during the debates on the bill “Immigration” carried by Gérald Darmanin, in the fall of 2023.

Read the excerpt: This article is reserved for our subscribers A report supports state medical aid, while recommending its freeze

Its conclusions, published on December 4, 2023, are confirmed “healthy use” of AME and warned against “The critical danger of caregiving” What will replace it with emergency medical assistance, WHO organization “will have the triple effect of deterioration in the health status of the people involved, possible consequences on public health and increased pressure on health establishments”.

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